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enGraham Receives Funding from the American Chemical Society's Petroleum Research Fundhttps://psychology.as.uky.edu/graham-receives-funding-american-chemical-societys-petroleum-research-fund
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Assistant Professor <a href="https://chem.as.uky.edu/users/krgr233">Kenneth Graham </a>received a $110,000 grant from ACS PRF to develop a better understanding of polymer blend thermoelectrics. Thermoelectrics can convert heat energy to useful electrical energy based on the Seebeck effect, or they can utilize electrical energy to produce heating or cooling. Polymer based thermoelectric materials have the potential to be low-cost, are lightweight, and mechanically flexible, which opens up a number of applications if the thermoelectric performance of these materials can be further improved. For example, these materials could be utilized to make the band of a Fitbit, or other wearable electronic device, and provide power for the device based solely on your body heat, or they could be utilized to recover waste heat from higher temperature sources, such as the coolant systems of automobiles. In the proposed research, the Graham group will utilize polymer blends to systematically manipulate the energy dependence of charge transport. They will determine how the film morphology, transport energy differences between the polymers in the blend, and the density of states distribution in the polymer blends influence the Seebeck coefficient and thermoelectric performance.</p>
</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-tags field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above clearfix"><div class="field-label">Tags: </div><ul class="links"><li class="taxonomy-term-reference-0" rel="dc:subject"><a href="/tag/kenneth-graham" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">kenneth graham</a></li><li class="taxonomy-term-reference-1" rel="dc:subject"><a href="/tag/chemistry" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">chemistry</a></li><li class="taxonomy-term-reference-2" rel="dc:subject"><a href="/tag/grant" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">grant</a></li></ul></div>Wed, 16 Nov 2016 21:25:19 +0000saodom0324709 at https://psychology.as.uky.eduQIPSR Provides Free Workshops in Quantitative Research Methods, Grant Writing, Software https://psychology.as.uky.edu/qipsr-provides-free-workshops-quantitative-research-methods-grant-writing-software
<div class="featured-nodes-image"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="https://psychology.as.uky.edu/sites/default/files/8-13-QIPSR-OLD.jpg" alt="" /></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><div>By Sarah Geegan</div>
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<div>Graduate students and faculty interested in brushing up on quantitative research methodology, software knowledge or grant-writing techniques should get to know <a href="https://qipsr.as.uky.edu/" target="_blank">QIPSR</a>. The Quantitative Initiative of Policy and Social Research is an organization committed to enhancing quantitative research across various colleges at the University of Kentucky. </div>
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<div>QIPSR exists to support faculty, students, policy officials and the general public in developing cutting-edge research and analysis techniques. The initiative organizes a variety of events throughout the year, including research and statistical workshops; grant writing workshops; practical software workshops including a software festival introducing programs such as STATA, SAS, SPSS and others; and an annual conference.</div>
<div>QIPSR, based in the <a href="http://www.as.uky.edu/" target="_blank">College of Arts and Sciences</a> but committed to enhancing quantitative research across the UK campus, is led by <a href="https://soc.as.uky.edu/" target="_blank">sociology</a> professor <a href="https://soc.as.uky.edu/users/tjanos" target="_blank">Thomas Janoski</a>. </div>
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<div>"As new techniques are developed in statistical methodology, many times as a graduate student or a faculty member it can be difficult to keep up with new, cutting-edge methodological innovations," Janoski said. "So our planning is driven by faculty and graduate students who use quantitative research methodologies, and who can showcase their efforts in their research in order to stay at the top of their respective fields." </div>
<div>QIPSR will kick off the 2013-2014 school year with a Software Festival, taking place throughout five Fridays in September and October, on the 6th floor of the UK College of Nursing Building, each time from 2:30-5 p.m. </div>
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<div>•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Friday, Sept. 13: STATA instructor: John Poe</div>
<div>•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Friday, Sept. 20: R instructor: Yu Ouyang</div>
<div>•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Friday, Sept. 27: SPSS instructor: Jennifer Jewell</div>
<div>•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Friday, Oct. 4: SAS instructor :Mahdi Asgari</div>
<div>•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Friday, Oct. 18: LaTeX instructor: Yu Ouyang </div>
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<div>Now in its fourth year, Janoski and his colleagues in QIPSR have also accumulated learning materials from past events, which serve as excellent instructional tools. These include videos, papers and Power points of presenters at previous events and are available on the <a href="https://qipsr.as.uky.edu/" target="_blank">QIPSR website</a>. </div>
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<div>"The goal of QIPSR is to disseminate research findings that address significant policy challenges in the Commonwealth and the rest of the world," Janoski said. "We hope that faculty, students and staff at UK will take advantage of these opportunities, and encourage even more high-quality interdisciplinary research at the University of Kentucky." </div>
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<div>MEDIA CONTACT: Sarah Geegan, (859) 257-5365; <a href="mailto:sarah.geegan@uky.edu">sarah.geegan@uky.edu</a></div>
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<div>The University of Kentucky <a href="http://www.uky.edu/Research/CDART/index.php" target="_blank">Center for Drug Abuse Research Translation</a> (CDART) has received a $7 million grant from the <a href="http://www.nih.gov/" target="_blank">National Institutes of Health</a> (NIH), funding which will continue the center's long history of developing novel intervention strategies that target high-risk individuals.</div>
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<div>CDART is connected to the <a href="http://www.drugabuse.gov/about-nida/organization/divisions/division-epidemiology-services-prevention-research-despr" target="_blank">Division of Epidemiology, Services and Prevention Research</a> at the <a href="http://www.drugabuse.gov/" target="_blank">National Institute on Drug Abuse</a> (NIDA). Though they are separate entities, CDART and NIDA have the common mission of understanding the causes and prevention of substance use disorders. The primary goal of CDART, which the grant will augment, is to move basic research findings into the application of more effective preventive intervention strategies.</div>
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<div>"We know that there are individual differences in impulsivity that lead to risky behaviors," <a href="https://psychology.as.uky.edu/users/mbardo" target="_blank">Michael Bardo</a>, director of CDART and professor in the UK <a href="http://psychology.as.uky.edu/" target="_blank">Department of Psychology</a>, said. "The current grant uses both preclinical (laboratory animal) and clinical (human experimental research) to understand the basic relation between individual differences in impulsivity and drug use. Both behavioral and brain neuroimaging techniques will be used. The relation between impulsivity and drug use will be investigated during the transition from adolescence to young adulthood, as this represents a period of development of increased vulnerability to drug use and abuse."</div>
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<div>In particular, the researchers will attempt to determine if individuals who are experiencing negative emotional states are more prone to become impulsive and use drugs. They will also test intervention strategies, based on the principles of mindfulness training, to determine if reducing such negative mood states protects against drug abuse among those a highest risk.</div>
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<div>"The grant is going into years 22-26 of funding, and thus it has a long history of working toward the development of novel intervention strategies for those at highest risk," Bardo said.</div>
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<div>The grant will fund a multidisciplinary group of researchers, facilitating the team-oriented approach that the NIH seeks to promote. In addition to faculty, three postdoctoral scholars, eight graduate students and four undergraduate students are involved in the center.</div>
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<div>The research team includes (from the UK <a href="http://www.as.uky.edu/" target="_blank">College of Arts and Sciences</a>) <a href="http://psychology.as.uky.edu/users/rbaer" target="_blank">Ruth Baer</a>, Department of Psychology; Michael Bardo, Department of Psychology; <a href="http://psychology.as.uky.edu/users/milich" target="_blank">Richard Milich</a>, Department of Psychology; <a href="http://psychology.as.uky.edu/users/milich" target="_blank">Richard Kryscio</a>, Department of Statistics; (from the UK College of Medicine) Thomas Kelly, Department of Behavioral Science; (from the UK College of Public Health) Richard Charnigo. Department of Biostatistics; and (from the UK College of Pharmacy) Linda Dwoskin. Donald Lynam from the Department of Psychology at Purdue University is also connected to CDART.</div>
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